108 NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXVI. 1919. 



hyaline, the veins and margins narrowly black ; the costal area to just beyond 

 the cell, the cell and area below it to just below submedian fold brilliant silvery 

 blue. 



New Britain, Kinigunang (Ribbe), 1 ? type in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 34 mill. 



(46) * t Paranthrene microthyris n. sp. 



?. Hind, thorax, and abdomen black -brown slightly glossed witli blue ; 

 frons white at sides ; fore tarsi white towards tips. Forewing black -brown 

 strongly suffused with brilliant metallic blue, except the costal area and termen 

 which are slightly tinged with purplish blue ; a small wedge-shaped subterminal 

 hyaline spot between veins 4 and 3. Hinch\ing hyaline, the veins and margins 

 narrowly black, the costal area to beyond the cell, the cell and area below it to 

 submedian fold brilliant metallic blue. 



New Britain, Kinigunang (Ribbe), 1 $ type in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 26 mill. 



(47) Paranthrene meeci. 



Sciapleron meeki Druce, A.M.NJI. (7) i. p. 207 (1898). 

 Trobriand Is. 



(48) t Paranthrene carulifera n. sp. 



?. Head, thorax, and abdomen black -brown \vith a slight bluish gloss, the 

 frons white at sides, the palpi with some white scales, the neck with white ring ; 

 mid and hind coxae with some white. Forewing black glossed with sage-green, 

 the interspaces, except on costal area, suffused with brilliant metallic blue to 

 well beyond the cell where it ends obliquely, the terminal area glossed mth purple. 

 HindwLng hyaUne, the veins glossed with sage-green, the margins black -brown 

 glossed with purple ; the costal area to beyond the cell,the cell and area below it 

 to vein 1 brilliant metallic blue, leaving slight hyaline streaks in and below base 

 of cell ; cilia greyish brown. 



Queensland, Kuranda (Dodd), 1 ? type, Walsingham Coll. Exp. 32 mill. 



(49) * Paranthrene pulchripennis. 



t Sannina pulchripennis Wlk., Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. vi. p. 82 (1862). 

 Mdiltia ambigua Snell.. Tijd. v. Ent. xliii. p. 36 (1900). 



Paranthrene andamana he Cerf, Oberth. £t. Lip. Comp. xii. i. pi. 377. f. 3150 (1916) ; id. I.e. xiv. 

 p. 265. 

 Andaman Is. ; Borneo, Sarawak ; Java. 



(50) * Paranthrene cambodialis. 



t Sannina cambodialis Wlk., xxxi. 15 (1864). 

 Siam, Cambodia. 



(51) * Paranthrene affinis. 



t Paranthrene affinis Roths., Nov. Zool. xviii. p. 46 (1911) ; id. I.e. xix. pi. iv. f. 32. 

 Malay States, Padang Rengas. 



(52) * Paranthrene javana. 

 Paranthrene javana Le Cerf, Oberth. £t. Lip. Comp. xii. i. pi. 376. i. 3149 (1916) ; id. I.e. xiv, 

 p. 265. 

 Java. 



